Ran into some Lyndon "LaDouche" whackos today. These people are truly nuts.

[RBInMaine]

What is it with these Lyndon Larouche nutcases? Saw some of them today gathering "Impeach Obama" signatures with posters of Obama with the Hitler mustache. If I didn't have my kid with me, I'd have told them they were nuts and I wouldn't waste time even looking at them if they weren't standing on the sidewalk. Larouche is a criminal kook who has done a lot of jail time. Is he still in the clink? Funny thing, if they were getting any signatures, and certainly not many, it was no doubt mostly teabaggers signing. Kooks signing for kooks. It was a mini sidewalk kook festival, very thinly attended.



I love how Barney Frank bashed one of them down once, asking her "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" and then saying, "I could get further trying to reason with a dining room table and have no interest in bothering with you."

[rdharma]

1. No more crazy than Ron & Rand Paul "Libertarians"!

[RBInMaine]

3. Well ya, they are nuts too and probably sign the LaDouche petitions. They deserve each other.

[Arneoker]

7. No doubt

I used to participate in a now defunct forum where the leading CT pushing poster cited both Ron Paul and LaRouche all of the time.

[graham4anything]

14. I was at a place like that that ended up being innundated

To paraphrase Elvis Costello
I used to try to be amused
Now I got to be disgusted

[TexasTowelie]

2. I hope that this will make your day a little bit brighter!

Here are a couple of threads that I posted with the LaDouches (I admit that I will be stealing that term).

The LaRouchies were at the Brenham post office today.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10784982

Life in Red Hell: Having Fun with the LaRouchies
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10785998

[former9thward]

4. They are a very strange group.

They were a leftie Marxist group in the 60s/70s. Then they went right. I don't know where they are at today.

[Cobalt-60]

5. They're after power

and nothing else.
Younger readers might not be familiar with Lyndon's 30 minute election eve commercial series.
Every election since I was old enough to vote was preceded by Larouche accusing the queen of England and whoever his opponents might have been of being in the Opium trade together.
There was one interesting deviation in the 80s when said he wanted to colonize Mars and would only need to be in total control 30 years to do it.
They try to weasel their people into the primaries of all parties.
Once they fouled the whole Democratic ticket in Illinois.
So don't look at them, don't listen to them, and for all the Gods' sakes, don't vote for them!

[former9thward]

6. I remember those 30 minute commercials now that you bring it up.

I was living in Illinois and I remember when LaRouchies won spots in 1986 on the state wide Democratic ticket. That forced the Democratic party to endorse their Republican opponents.

[RBInMaine]

8. LaDouche could rename himself "Doe" and take his followers on a trip on a comet.

[RBInMaine]

9. They'll get about as much power as one could fit in a thimble. They're truly nuts.

[RBInMaine]

10. They are and have always been in CrazyLand.

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[Fuddnik]

11. I ran into some of them back in the early 70's.

Really cloud cuckoo-land.

They had some type of psychological control over their cult back then.

[8 track mind]

12. Al Franken did the best spoof of him on SNL. n/t

[DFW]

13. I actually knew one German guy who worshipped Larouche

I didn't really blame him. The poor guy had been in a near-fatal bicycle accident, and the top of his skull had had to be replaced with a cement cap, since his skull had accidentally been allowed to rot without proper refrigeration. I think all Larouche supporters must have had cement cranial replacements, although this was the only one I ever met.

[Yavin4]

15. They're still around??!?!?! Holy Cow!

Are the Moonies still around?

[kimbutgar]

16. They sometimes show up near the Ferry Building in San Francisco

With their nasty signs and mean smirks. I never seen anyone talk to them and most people give them dirty looks. I got into it with one of them once and the person was a mean little prick who shouted at me that I was the one brainwashed. So I asked them if so "why isn't Larouche President or more popular mainstream"? He didn't have an answer. I also saw them during the Bush Iraq anti war protests and got some of their literature, they're basically against anyone who is establishment. Anyway I read about two pages of their literature and threw it in the garbage can. I consider them moonies cultist types. So far gone they can no longer be reached. (Much like 47% of this country who listen to rush and watch fox. They has lost the ability to have a civil discourse without resorting to screaming and attacks.

Now when I see this loons I just keep walking and ignore them.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

17. They show up at the State Democratic Convention in Texas.

They have their tables with propaganda.
And all the Democrats ignore them, hoping they will go away.





Unfortunately, they don't.

At the 1980 convention, my dad asked one of them "Where is he coming from?" meaning philosophically. The guy said, "Maine", which is not the answer Dad was looking for.

[Florida Dem]

18. Photos of Larouche Idiots In Front of My Post Office

..harassing customers entering and leaving the building in Gulf Breeze, Florida. It sounds similar to what the OP experienced. I did a blog post about this two months ago which includes photos of President Obama with a Hitler mustache. The photos and my blog post can be found at http://BloggingDemocratic.blogspot.com

[Paladin]

19. Do they still have that glassy-eyed stare and unearthly manner?

That's what I remember about them, from back in the 70's......